The Virtual Console was first announced at E3 2006, when it was announced that Nintendo, including the newly acquired Hudson Soft, was working to bring their best classic games to the Revolution. The Virtual Console was the original component of the Nintendo eShop, launching with the Revolution in late 2006. It featured NES, SNES, TurboGrafx, and Nintendo 64 games. These four platforms would be the mainstay of the Virtual Console, each contributing dozens of titles, with arcade games only arriving in early 2009, and only appearing scarcely afterwards.